YARDIE, Idris Elba’s debut as a feature director, is coming to Los Angeles for a limited engagement at the Arena Cinelounge in Hollywood March 15-21st.
Written by Brock Norman Brock and Martin Stellman and based on the book by Victor Headley, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen), who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary).
Set in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1970s and London’s Hackney district in the 1980s, we follow D growing up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd). Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne (Shantol Jackson), and his daughter who he’s not seen since she was a baby. He also hooks up with a soundclash crew, called High Noon. But before he can be convinced to abandon his life of crime and follow “the righteous path”, he encounters the man who shot his brother 10 years earlier, and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution – a quest which brings him into conflict with vicious London gangster Rico (Stephen Graham). (101 minutes, not rated)
The Arena Cinelounge Sunset is located at 6464 Sunset Blvd., Lobby Level, Hollywood. Admission: $16 each feature film.
